Temporary Thaw Begins In New Jersey

New Jersey is still under a State of Emergency but a bit of a warm-up will begin today and continue into Monday, when another deep freeze is forecast.After a night of temperatures around zero and wind chills below zero, the wind will diminish during the day Saturday and temperatures will rise into the 20s, enabling all those road salts and and chemicals to work.

There were a number of accidents overnight into Saturday morning, some blocking lanes on the Garden State Parkway, I-295, I-287 and Route 35.

Christie was on Twitter during much of the storm, commenting on pictures of kids in the snow, complimenting snow crews and posting a clip of the "Hercules" scene from Eddie Murphy's "The Nutty Professor," in a reference to the Weather Channel's name for the first snowstorm of 2014.

More precipitation is forecast for Sunday, expected to start as snow before turning first to a wintry mix, then rain as temperatures rise into the low 40s. But temperatures are expected to fall to Arctic levels again on Monday and Tuesday.